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Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatise...

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I Onkel Toms stuga följer vi den goda, plikttrogna slaven Tom. I början av boken är Tom en oerhört uppskattad och betrodd slav hos en snäll, vit familj i Kentucky, men när familjen hamnar i stor ekonomisk knipa blir de - helt emot sin vilja - tvin...

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Onkel Toms stuga (originaltitel Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly ) är en roman skriven av Harriet Beecher Stowe, publicerad den 20 mars 1852. Den handlar om slaveriet i USA sett ur slavarnas perspektiv och bidrog starkt till att slaveri...

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?One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.?Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War,...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.'Viewed by many as fuelling t...

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In a nation divided on the slavery question, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had the profound effect of defining and calling dramatic attention to the issues involved. Though a century had passed since the novel's first publication, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is cur...

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Beecher Stowes vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America. When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slaves, and Uncle Tom finds himself the property of a cruel plantation o...

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`So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!'These words, said to have been uttered by Abraham Lincoln, signal the celebrity of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stow...

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A balanced collection of Stowe's most important writings from the 1830s through to the 1860s, including the complete Uncle Tom's Cabin. The reader is divided into three sections: Early Essays and Sketches; Anti-Slavery Writings; Domestic Culture a...

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A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery. This edition features a new i...

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The first American novel to become an international best-seller, Stowe's book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery, and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties. This edition fi...

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A faithful reproduction of the hard-to-find "Splendid Edition" of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic American novel, this version features all of the 117 illustrations drawn by Hammatt Billings and a detailed introduction by prize-winning historian D...

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In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published her abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, an instant classic acclaimed by Northerners and other abolitionist readers but Southerners, - slave owners - attacked the book's accuracy. The following year Stowe ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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A devoutly Christian slave becomes separated from his wife and family when he is sold to the brutal planter, Simon Legree.

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Declared worthless and dehumanizing by James Baldwin in 1949, Uncle Tom's Cabin has lacked literary credibility for fifty years. Now, in a ringing refutation of Baldwin, Henry Louis Gates Jr. demonstrates the literary transcendence of Harriet Beec...

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Part of the Norton Library series The Norton Library edition of Uncle Toms Cabin features the text of the 1852 edition, including original woodcut illustrations. An introduction by Susan M. Ryan takes a lively and incisive look at the novels histo...

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In the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any book in the world except the Bible. Upon publication, it was quickly translated into thirty-seven languages and has never gone out of print. It remains a controversial and comp...

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By exposing the extreme cruelties of slavery, this timeless and moving novel inflamed the passions and prejudices of thousands, fanning the embers of the struggle between free and slave states into the fire of the Civil War. Revised reissue.

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Selling more than 300,000 copies the first year it was published, Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852. Denouncing the institution of slavery in dramatic terms, the incendiary novel quickly draws t...

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Includes the unabridged text of Stowe's classic novel plus a complete study guide that helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the work's content and context. The comprehensive guide includes chapter-by-chapter summaries, explanations and d...

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Stowe's powerful abolitionist novel, which fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852, is now available in this specially priced Thrift Edition.

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In 1852 Stowe's bestselling Uncle Tom's Cabin was acclaimed by Northerners and condemned by Southerners. The following year she produced this defense, which cites real-life equivalents to her characters.

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"e;I highly recommend reading this supplement in conjunction with Ms. Stowe's novel to gain a better understanding of the history of our nation."e; — The Literary SouthIn 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin, an ins...

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This 1852 novel provides a powerful, historical look at the treatment of slaves in the pre-Civil War South.

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